Then, with tears upon my cheeks, I prayed to Isis, the mighty saviour goddess: "O Queen of Heaven, who dost enlighten the world with thy lovely beams as thou goest on thy lonely way, hear me now and help me, in my peril and misery and misfortune!

'Tis a dark chamber for the bridal night, O poor, pale, saviour bride!

Was it, then, some mad hope of doing this, a fervent belief in a miracle, in the possibility of some saviour descending from Heaven, that kept Constance thus rigid and stubborn, awaiting destiny?

"'Tis the dear Saviour bids thee come, His angels wait to bear thee home; Loudly, he's saying now to thee, 'Suffer such to come to me.'" "Mother, all things are pure and bright; I see them by a heavenly light, And beaming in the distance far, I see the glorious morning Star.

Come, my beloved, we will haste and go To those pale faces of our fellow men; Our loving hearts, burning with summer-fire, Will cast a glow upon their pallidness; Our hands will help them, far as servants may; Hands are apostles still to saviour-hearts.

Fly swift and sure," cries Elsley, "thou fiery angel of mercy, bearing the saviour-line!

Then swift Erinys when she saw it slew by each other's hand his war-like sons: yet after that Polyneikes fell Thersander lived after him and won honour in the Second Strife and in the fights of war, a saviour scion to the Adrastid house.